On Saturday, the 4th day of the meeting in Sibiu, Romania, we had lots of experiences outside the city, while learning how to plant little fir trees and how to take care of them, admiring the scenery from above, from 1681 meters more precisely and then testing our strength in Arka Park.
At 9 o’clock, the entire group left with 2 coaches from the parking lot of Thalia Hall. Our first destination was Rasinari, a village near Sibiu. There, we stopped at a farm for trees, where some enthusiastic people told us stories about their work as forest rangers and also about what they were doing in the tree farm. Then, we helped them clean the soil from weeds between the firs. They needed special conditions, as they were only 3 or 4 years old. Then, we went to the planting sector, where firs of only 1 or 2 years old were planted. All of us managed to plant 5 firs but then we had to leave to continue our journey to Paltinis.
But before leaving, our hosts gave us some little firs, to plant in our gardens or in flower pots to remind us about that day. We were so surprised when we saw some little lizards in the grass, which were way more friendly than we would have ever thought.
Our next stop was at Paltinis, at the bottom base of the lift. We chose a partner and then we took the lift up in the mountains, for a length of more than 1 km. There we had a picnic, took some photos (phototos, as we liked to call them), had some ‘fights’ with snow, explored the nearby forest and then fought again with snowballs. We had such a great time there, but we had to take the lift again to go down. Even though we were sad that we had to leave from there, we got over very fast, because we realized that we were heading now for Arka Park.
At Arka Park, as I already said, we tested our limits, for real. We had 3 hours to try the easiest or the hardest trails from the outdoor park. We had so much fun there, even though, sometimes, our legs, arms and hands hurt. I managed to finish just 3 trials, because the time slipped away and we had to go back in the city. But I don’t think that any of us will be able to forget the experiences at Arka Park: being hung on a rope at 5 meters above the ground, jumping from tree to tree, trying not to let ourselves be scared of the things that we had to do.
At 6:30 pm we came back in Sibiu, where our parents were waiting for us to take us home, after that extraordinary day. We went home, had dinner and a shower and then most of us met in the Large Square to celebrate the last day in Romania for some people of the group, the Turkish team, who were going to leave the next afternoon. After we have spent some time there, we headed home, waiting to see what other activities we were going to have the next day.
video by Dumitrita Lupascu, Erasmus + Romania team
text by Daniel Popescu, Erasmus+ Romania team
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